#jioxa

March VSArtParty folks 🥳

VS Art Party (EU) - March

Jioxa for @skydrifter 💜

Absolutely love that girl! And I'm just so happy to have drawn her because I've improved a lot since the first time I did haha

haircut for the rat <3

Jioxa loved Wintersday. The snow, the lights, the decoration – and of course the gifts! This was the time of family and happiness, and people showed their love to each other by giving wonderful presents. Some were self-made, some were useful or pretty things, maybe clothes, sweets, anything.

In Divinity’s Reach, Queen Jennah had established a ritual were orphans were given gifts too, as they mostly had no one else. And Jioxa wondered why there was no such ritual in Maguuma too! She knew herself that many progeny couldn’t enjoy Wintersday as much as they wanted, and this year, she would be the one to change that.

During months of preparation, Jioxa collected anything that could be useful for a little progeny. She collected toys, golems, machines, anything. Her griffon, a lovely but also quite playful companion named Pecky, proved to be a great help when it came to gift-wrap all of these little toys. They had collected so many things that the whole room was filled to the ceiling with small and big boxes, some were red, others were blue, and every single one looked unique.

Jioxa had equipped them with small chutes, and on the top of every chute sat a red light that would beep until someone opened the box. There was also a note, that said: “Happy Wintersday! May the magic of winter fill every corner of your heart and home with joy – now and always. J”

And then, Wintersday arrived. Both Jioxa and Pecky were neatly dressed up as the tiny Asura fastened all those boxes to the griffon’s body. They were heavy, and Pecky had trouble getting into the air under all the weight, but she did it in the end.

The night sky was dark and a light snowfall covered the houses of Metrica in a white and soft blanket. Flying high above all those Asura, Jioxa loosened one gift after another and let them float slowly to the ground. Soon, the air was filled with red lights and beeping noises, and the first curious progenies came running out of their houses to see what was going on.

Some of them could still see the shape of the griffon disappearing, and even though they would never know who had made them these gifts, they would all thank their secret toymaker for the new golem, doll or whatever they had gotten.

Jioxa eventually returned home after a long and cold night. But she was happy, as she had made so many children out there happy. And she didn’t care if any of them knew her name, as long as they would carry a smile on their face this night, because Wintersday was the season of happiness after all.

My part of the @gw2-holiday-gift-exchange​ for @astralarias​!

thank u anet for letting me dress my light armor characters in more heavy looking armor